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Paragraph styles and character styles

Paragraph styles and character styles - Photoshop Tutorial

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Paragraph styles and character styles

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to talk about paragraph styles and character styles in Photoshop. Now, I'm a big fan of these features but in InDesign. In Photoshop, paragraph styles and character styles, their implementation is very inconsistent, and they seem to undermine the very reason that you would use these features, i.e. efficiency and consistency. But that said, if you do have a lot of text such as a document like this, a web mockup, at different sizes, then they still may save you some time if implemented in a limited way and with limited expectations. So let's see how we can use them. First of all, I have several pieces of text that I consider body text and I want to create a style and apply it to them and then be able to update that style. So I'm going to come to my paragraph styles panel, and create a new paragraph style. That's going to end up down at the bottom here. I'll double-click on that, I'll give it a name. And I am going to go with Open Sans. Open Sans…

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